empressement
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At the station M. Bouc was greeted with respectful empressement by the brown-uniformed Wagon Lit conductor.
From "Murder on the Orient Express" by Agatha Christie
"I hope we shall meet again," he said, with no small empressement.
From Helena's Path by Anthony Hope
I called on your mother a week or two ago; she always asks after you with empressement, and is very civil indeed to me.
From The Life and Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Volume II (of 2) by Florence A. Thomas Marshall
"How do you do, dear Mrs. Gower?" he said with empressement, his strikingly handsome face aglow with pleasure.
From A Romance of Toronto A Novel by Annie Gregg Savigny
To the Lady I was conscious of stooping infinitely lower; and I even flattered myself that the empressement which I wished to put into my reverence was not unperceived by her.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 372, October 1846 by Various
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